About June 18
June 18, 2025 is the 169th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 196 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 244 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 18
- 1178 –Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon’s distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.
- 1264 –The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
- 1429 –French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeat the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. This turns the tide of the Hundred Years’ War.
- 1684 –The charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is revoked via a scire facias writ issued by an English court.
- 1757 –Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years’ War.
- 1767 –Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
- 1778 –American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1859 –First ascent of Aletschhorn, second summit of the Bernese Alps.
- 1900 –Empress Dowager Longyu of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
- 1908 –Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
- 1923 –Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
- 1930 –Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held.
- 1940 –“Finest Hour” speech by Winston Churchill.
- 1940 –Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle.
- 1953 –A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tokyo, Japan killing 129.
- 1983 –Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
- 1984 –A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984-1985 UK miners’ strike.
- 1996 –Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
- 2006 –The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.
- 2009 –The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
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